A presentation of the Accessibility Developer Guide project

1. –
The
Accessibility
Developer Guide
Lausanne, June 26th, 2018

2. Agenda
– What it is
– The Swiss Accessibility Alliance
– Fun facts/figures
– Contributing
– Roadmap
– Resources
– Questions

3. About me

4. – Name: Donato Rotunno
– Age: 43
– Origin: Italy
– Profile: Frontend developer
– Workplace: Liip AG in Fribourg since 2011
– https://github.com/ralf57
– https://twitter.com/ralf57

5. A small anecdote from my early 2000s

7. “This thing is even better without
CSS”

8. What it is

9. The main reference for developers
implementing accessible web solutions

10. Sounds ambitious?

11. And it is, indeed

12. – Look up the solution/inspiration on the internet
– Ask colleagues (Slack, email, etc)
– Build your own (possibly starting from scratch)
You need to implement something...

13. – Outdated and/or unmaintained
– Untested
Most of the times

14. Enter
The Accessibility Developer Guide
A centralised, open source, knowledge base for the
practical developer

15. – Broad informative section
– Ready to use accessible solutions
– Tested by the “Access for All” foundation
Your only reference for all your
accessibility needs

16. Demo

17. The Swiss Accessibility
Alliance

18. Current members
– “Access for All” foundation (initiator)
– Liip
– Unic
– Hinderling Volkart
– Zeix

19. How Agencies are contributing
– Development work
– Marketing and communication

20. Benefits
– Financial savings (lower costs for the customers too)
– Privileged partner for accessibility needs

21. Fun facts/figures

22. 7 developers

23. 3 marketing people

24. 6 Hackdays

26. 36 merged PRs on Github

27. 6 visually impaired testers

28. 111 examples

29. ~111 content pages

30. ~100 screenshots

31. Contributing

32. How can you help
– Pull requests to the github repository
– Marketing/broadcasting
– Use it and spread the word

33. Roadmap

34. Next steps
– Additional content (color and contrast, Audio/video,
PDF, SVG, EPUB, ARIA
– Video section
– Improve code architecture (components)
– Workshops
– Hackdays
– Mobile screen-readers
– WCAG 2.1 Updates

35. Resources

36. – http://www.accessibility-developer-guide.com/
– https://twitter.com/A11yDevGuide
– https://www.facebook.com/AccessibilityDeveloperGuide
– https://github.com/Access4all/adg

37. Thanks a lot!